Actually, Steve Jobs Did Want Us to Use Our iPhones Like This (Premium)

A recent editorial about smartphone obsession is well-intended, but it gets the history of Steve Jobs and the iPhone all wrong.

Cal Newport is a computer scientist and author, according to the byline of his recent New York Times editorial, Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This. I’m a bit peeved that gets credit for ideas that others have long had---like my notion of â...